Commercial tricycle riders, popularly called keke napep, on Monday clashed with police operatives at Gyadi-Gyadi court road in Kano municipal, Kano State.
The police had fired shots in the air to disperse the youth who were trying to enforce a strike action declared for the tricycle operators in the state.
The riders commenced a strike on Monday to resist the N100 daily tax enforced by the state government through the Kano State Roads and Traffic Agency (KAROTA) among other issues.
The strike has cripple Kano city, the commercial nerve centre of the North, leaving passengers stranded Monday morning. Most streets in the city have been deserted, and only private cars, buses, taxis, motorcycles, and trucks are plying on the roads.
Hundreds of people had resulted in trekking some kilometers to their destinations, as the city has limited public transport service.
The state government had on Sunday unveiled plans to float a transportation company with 200 buses before the end of 2021.
In the bid to enforce the strike, some of the commercial riders had resorted to attacking their colleague for allegedly violating the order. Some riders had their vehicles’ windshields smashed and passengers were forced to alight from the vehicles.
It took the intervention of the men of the Nigeria Police, which fired teargas to disperse protesting youths and restore public peace.
